From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:07:22 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Need help getting started with X11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20141124210722.49239966@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Lennart Ramberg, On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:41:38 +0100, Lennart Ramberg wrote: > Or, if anyone would be so kind, I'm stuck at the below defconfig. > The system works in the sense that I can ssh into it, but now I want > graphics on the console display. > I have not yet anything in the overlays that starts or otherwise relates to > xorg. > My target chipset is Intel 852GM. > For one thing, what is supposed to create an xorg.conf? These days, if you enable udev a xorg.conf is often not needed. > And I suppose X should be started somehow in supervisor.d like I start sshd > there. > > BR2_x86_i686=y > BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y > # BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY is not set > BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="board/eta/board1/rootfs-overlay/" > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="i386" > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET=y > BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7=y > BR2_PACKAGE_XSERVER_XORG_SERVER=y Make sure to also enable the Intel graphics driver, i.e. BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_VIDEO_INTEL. Note that you need to switch the "modular X.org server" variant to achieve that. And then, start the X server by simply running "X". Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com